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The Jail

Managing the Underclass in American Society

de John Irwin ...

Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin argues that rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people, ... Leer más

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Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin argues that rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people,
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And That's That!

de John Irwin ...

This book is one mans story of engineering and mountaineering. It is an inspirational account of how one young man built his life from very modest beginningswith little money or education, joining the adult world as an apprentice engineer, going on to academic distinction and a great career as a director of a large manufacturing concern in South Africa. It is an account also of how that young man ... Leer más

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This book is one mans story of engineering and mountaineering. It is an inspirational account of how one young man built his life from very modest beginningswith little money or education, joining the adult world as an apprentice engineer, going on to academic distinction and a great career as a director of a large manufacturing concern in South Africa. It is an account also of how that young man
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Lifers

Seeking Redemption in Prison

de John Irwin ...

Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional ... Leer más

$55.99 USD

John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional
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The Bear Hunter

The Search for Rangers' Nine-in-a-Row Heroes

de John Irwin, Murray Scougall ...

The Bear Hunter is a unique story of football obsession. Author John Irwin vowed to track down each of the 86 players who featured in the club's nine successive league title triumphs between 1988 and 1997. His obsession took him around the world during seven years of adventures as he turned bear hunter to meet his heroes. ... Leer más

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The Bear Hunter is a unique story of football obsession. Author John Irwin vowed to track down each of the 86 players who featured in the club's nine successive league title triumphs between 1988 and 1997. His obsession took him around the world during seven years of adventures as he turned bear hunter to meet his heroes.
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Ibn Khaldun

An Intellectual Biography

de Robert Irwin ...

Narrado por John Telfer ...

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9 hora 34 minutos

This audiobook narrated by John Telfer gives the definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in ... Leer más

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This audiobook narrated by John Telfer gives the definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in
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The Secession Talks

Exhibitions in Conversation 2011–2022

Traducido por Marc Hiatt, Louise Pain, Gegensatz Translation Collective ...

de Lawrence Abu Hamdan, John Akomfrah, Diana Al-Hadid, Francis Alÿs, Edgar Arceneaux0, Lutz Bacher1, Nairy Baghramian2, Yael Bartana3, Hannes Böck4, Ulla von Brandenburg5, Gerard Byrne6, Vija Celmins7, Olga Chernysheva8, Chto Delat9, David Claerbout0, Attila Csörgő1, Alex Da Corte2, Svenja Deininger3, Liz Deschenes4, Peter Doig5, Heinrich Dunst6, Nicole Eisenman7, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster8, Anthea Hamilton9, Bakani Pick-Up0, Maria Hassabi1, Edi Hila2, Anthony Huberman3, Robert Irwin4, Tess Jaray5, Tillman Kaiser6, Bouchra Khalili7, Joseph Leo Koerner8, Moritz Küng9, Ferdinand Schmatz0, Pablo Lafuente1, Dustin Ericksen2, Hilary Lloyd3, Asier Mendizabal4, Thomas Locher5, Inés Lombardi6, Tala Madani7, Till Megerle8, Jean-Luc Moulène9, Rudolf Polanszky0, Lisl Ponger1, R. H. Quaytman2, Ed Ruscha3, Payam Sharifi4, Danh Vō5 ...

The Secession Talks is a collection of artist talks on exhibitions that took place at the Secession from 2011 to 2022. They contextualize the exhibition history of the Secession and allow for a new consideration and evaluation of the program. As a collection, these conversations between artists and well-known art critics, art historians, curators, and artist colleagues form a unique interface ... Leer más

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The Secession Talks is a collection of artist talks on exhibitions that took place at the Secession from 2011 to 2022. They contextualize the exhibition history of the Secession and allow for a new consideration and evaluation of the program. As a collection, these conversations between artists and well-known art critics, art historians, curators, and artist colleagues form a unique interface
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Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them

Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

de John T. Irwin ...

The noted literary critic delves into the psychology and significance of American hardboiled crime fiction and film noir of the 1930s and '40s.Early in the twentieth century, American crime novelists like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler put forward a new kind of character: the "hard-boiled" detective, as exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of ... Leer más

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The noted literary critic delves into the psychology and significance of American hardboiled crime fiction and film noir of the 1930s and '40s.Early in the twentieth century, American crime novelists like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler put forward a new kind of character: the "hard-boiled" detective, as exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of
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Another River, Another Town

A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat--1945

de John P. Irwin ...

Many narrative accounts of men in combat during World War II have conveyed the horrors and emotions of warfare. However, not many reveal in such an intimate way the struggle of innocent youth to adapt to the primitive code of “kill or be killed,” to transform from lads into combat soldiers.Another River, Another Town is the story of John P. Irwin, a teenage tank gunner whose idealistic desire to ... Leer más

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Many narrative accounts of men in combat during World War II have conveyed the horrors and emotions of warfare. However, not many reveal in such an intimate way the struggle of innocent youth to adapt to the primitive code of “kill or be killed,” to transform from lads into combat soldiers.Another River, Another Town is the story of John P. Irwin, a teenage tank gunner whose idealistic desire to
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Environmental Justice and Climate Change

Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States

de Scott G. Hefelfinger, Anselma Dolcich-Ashley, Jame Schaefer, Christiana Z. Peppard, Jeremiah Vallery, David Cloutier, Keith Douglass Warner, Elizabeth Groppe, Bernard Unabali, Donald Kettler0, Mary Ashley1, John T. Brinkman2, Matthew Philipp Whelan3, Kevin W. Irwin4, Michael Baur5, Tobias Winright6 ...

During his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI was called ‘the green pope’ because of his ecological commitments in his writings, statements, and practical initiatives. Containing twelve essays by lay, ordained, and religious Catholic theologians and scholars, along with a presentation and a homily by bishops, Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the ... Leer más

$129.99 USD

During his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI was called ‘the green pope’ because of his ecological commitments in his writings, statements, and practical initiatives. Containing twelve essays by lay, ordained, and religious Catholic theologians and scholars, along with a presentation and a homily by bishops, Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the
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Love and Christian Ethics

Tradition, Theory, and Society

de Frederick V. Simmons, Thomas W. Ogletree, Terence Irwin, Oliver O'Donovan, Jean Porter, John Hare, Michael J. Ferreira, Edward Collins Vacek, John P. Reeder Jr.0, Margaret A. Farley1, Edmund N. Santurri2, Stephen J. Pope3, Timothy P. Jackson4, Lisa Sowle Cahill5, Cathleen Kaveny6, Mark D. Jordan7, Emilie M. Townes8, Holmes Rolston III9, Eric Gregory0, Ronald M. Green1, John Kelsay2, William Werpehowski3 ...

Series series Moral Traditions series
At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the recording of the Christian gospels, and in recent decades teachers and students of Christian ethics have engaged in vigorous debates about appropriate interpretations and implications of this critical ... Leer más

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At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the recording of the Christian gospels, and in recent decades teachers and students of Christian ethics have engaged in vigorous debates about appropriate interpretations and implications of this critical
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Chaos Reconsidered

The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics

de Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Chaudoin, Susan Colbourn, Martin Conway, James Goldgeier, Richard H. Immerman, Robert Legvold, Anthony Dirk Moses, Sarah B. Snyder, Jennifer Spindel, James Stocker, John A. Thompson, Christy Thornton, Thomas Zeiler, F. Gregory Gause III, Randall Schweller, Dayna Barnes, Frank Ninkovich, William Hitchcock, Jonathan Monten, Elizabeth Economy, Matthew Evangelista, Lindsay Aqui, Audie Klotz, Joshua Busby, Jonathan DiCicco, William Glenn Gray, Samuel Zipp, Angela Stent, Michael Barnett, Deborah Avant, Emma Ashford, Ryan Irwin, Nicholas Mulder, Tanvi Madan, Kathryn Statler, Jason Ludwig, Rebecca Slayton, Nivi Manchada, Helen V. Milner, Dustin Tingley, George N. Georgarakis, Robert Shapiro, Alessandro Brogi, Lawrence Freedman, Charles S. Maier ...

The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against ... Leer más

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The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against
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Good Neighbor Diplomacy

United States Policies in Latin America, 1933-1945

de Irwin Gellman ...

Series series The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Originally published in 1979. American diplomacy during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency has received much attention, with one notable exception—the United States' relations with Latin America. Irwin Gellman's book corrects this past neglect through a perceptive analysis of FDR's "Good Neighbor" efforts in Latin America. Based on a fresh examination of State Department records and extensive ... Leer más

$39.99 USD

Originally published in 1979. American diplomacy during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency has received much attention, with one notable exception—the United States' relations with Latin America. Irwin Gellman's book corrects this past neglect through a perceptive analysis of FDR's "Good Neighbor" efforts in Latin America. Based on a fresh examination of State Department records and extensive
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